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Coming to Tiny Screens All Over the Place

Korea Offers Evidence Consumers Will View Video on Cellphones

Updated Dec. 8, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

SEOUL -- Watching TV and movies on cellphones is so common in South Korea, people no longer think twice about it.

Since 2005, South Koreans have been able to buy cellphones and other portable devices that pick up TV broadcasts sent on a special frequency, a system created here and known as digital multimedia broadcasting, or DMB. And last year, two of the country's three cellphone-service providers upgraded their networks to third-generation, or 3G, technology that enables big improvements to video streaming and downloading...